Article: Game Thread: Twins v Indians, 6/16@7:10pm CT

[Aggies7]

Poor guy. Probably won't see him again.

[70charger]

 

Turley is still under 60 pitches and seems to have hit a groove. He might go 7. That would be huge.

 

I read this comment, checked the inning, and thought "huh, this really isn't so bad."

 

I think I jinxed it, guys.

[70charger]

 

I saw the first one, I doubt very much I'd enjoy the sequel

 

The book was better anyway.

[Darius]

Brilliant intentional walk of the coldest hitter on the Indians.

[LaBombo]

 

Turley is still under 60 pitches and seems to have hit a groove. He might go 7. That would be huge.

 

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[ashbury]

Should I ask where you found this? Or why?

We can go with this one if you like it better:

 

[70charger]

 

Molitor to Turley before the game: "You better plan on going 9. Breslow's first up in the bullpen if you need help. Just so you know."

 

Nailed it.

[Riverbrian]

I feel bad for Turley.

 

Hopes and Dreams... Cup of coffee.. All that stuff. 

 

At least he can tell his grandchildren he had a couple of starts. 

 

Of course his Grandchildren won't understand what baseball was while living on Mars. 

[Aggies7]

We can go with this one if you like it better:

 

[yarnivek1972]

Damn. Not sure what to think about Turley. He lacks movement on his pitches. Hard to figure out how that explains his K per 9 in AAA. The Indians are just teeing off on him.

[h2oface]

It is like they just decide to throw away some of these games. Like they don't even care. Turley. What a joke.

[LaBombo]

Mejia and Turley, now I'm gonna hurl-y.

Edited June 17, 2017 by LaBombo

[Aggies7]

I feel bad for Turley.

 

Hopes and Dreams... Cup of coffee.. All that stuff. 

 

At least he can tell his grandchildren he had a couple of starts. 

 

Of course his Grandchildren won't understand what baseball was while living on Mars.

 

Hopefully baseballreference.com won't be around by then

[70charger]

 

I feel bad for Turley.

 

Hopes and Dreams... Cup of coffee.. All that stuff. 

 

At least he can tell his grandchildren he had a couple of starts. 

 

Of course his Grandchildren won't understand what baseball was while living on Mars. 

 

Nah, they'll be hitting 1300 foot home runs on Mars by then.

[amjgt]

This game is simultaneously why I'm worried about run differential and not worried about run differential.

[Aggies7]

It is like they just decide to throw away some of these games. Like they don't even care. Turley. What a joke.

Who would you have started?

[magiklair]

Are we (Riverbrian Edit) done with these career minor leaguers? I mean, if you want to lose the game. We certainly know how to do it.. Bring up the young prospects. You can't do any worse..

[LaBombo]

 

 

At least he can tell his grandchildren he had a couple of starts. 

 

Of course his Grandchildren won't understand what baseball was while living on Mars. 

 

Maybe they'll run across one of the home runs he gave up.

Edited June 17, 2017 by LaBombo

[Aggies7]

Oof, that Star Wars/twins commercial was horrific. I'm sure Miguel was a big Luke Skywalker fan back in the DR

[h2oface]

 

Who would you have started?

 

I would have made moves that gave this team more pitching. It really isn't a question of best decision for the day. And not career minor leaguers that can do well in AAA.

Edited June 17, 2017 by h2oface

[ashbury]

I feel bad for Turley.

 

Hopes and Dreams... Cup of coffee.. All that stuff. 

 

At least he can tell his grandchildren he had a couple of starts. 

 

Of course his Grandchildren won't understand what baseball was while living on Mars. 

He can take them out to the spot where Encarnacion's souvenir landed and show them first-hand.

 

/ edit - ninja'd by about a bazillion posters. I want a new wifi.

[Aggies7]

I would have made moves that gave this team more pitching. It really isn't a question of best decision for the day.

What moves though? Not trying to be a D, but the team is down two starters and had a whole lot of holes to fill coming into the year. What were they going to do, carry 8 starting pitchers just in case they'd be over .500 in June?

Edited June 17, 2017 by Aggies7

[LaBombo]

 

Are we (Riverbrian edit) done with these career minor leaguers?

 

Didn't know the right words to break the bad news to you, so...

 

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[Darius]

I'm not discarding them. The post I replied to said that it was OBVIOUS that Hughes should not have been in the rotation to start the season. He had a serviceable first month. So, how exactly was it obvious?

 

PS: You have yet to respond to the rest of the post. What was the alternative?

If you actually watched the games, it was obvious. The guy couldn't top 90, and was giving up laser beams all over the yard. He physically couldn't make it past 5 innings.

 

Because he got very lucky, doesn't mean he was "serviceable." That's my opinion on the thing. It was clear he wasn't going to hold up.

 

Feel free to disrespect that opinion all you want....but there were also others with very well respected opinions who said the same (Gleeman is one off the top of my head).

[h2oface]

It is even more demoralizing that the offense has mustered one hit, and seems to have given up, too.

[Aggies7]

Bert: "hasn't been the best outing for carrasco"

 

We have 1 hit through 4 1/3

[jimmer]

 

So it's okay for you to cherry pick after 5 starts, but not for me after 6?

Gotcha.

Still waiting to hear what the alternative was.

You completely ignored that part of my post.

In the post I last responded to, YOU Said 'He had a serviceable first month.'

 

YOU picked the time frame.  In the first month (April), he ONLY HAD FIVE STARTS. He didn't have six starts.  So I looked at the stats from April (the first month).

 

The alternative was to go get better pitching (and not count on a guy who is coming off injury and hasn't been good for years).I guess I thought that was obvious, but I didn't say it.  You're right.

Edited June 17, 2017 by jimmer

[h2oface]

 

What moves though? Not trying to be a D, but the team is down two starters and had a whole lot of holes to fill coming into the year. What were they going to do, carry 8 starting pitchers just in case they'd be over .500 in June?

 

No. This is just fine. This is your Minnesota Twins. All future, no now. Turley should get 5 more starts. I am not going to get into a previous off season here.

[DocBauer]

At a 6yo super hero birthday party in a power outage. Apparently too much super hero power in one place. My super hero name is "Turbo Shield".

 

Late to the thread after checking my phone. Maybe Turley sucked the power out of Omaha?

[twins_89]

Twins starting pitchers other than Santana and Berrios have a combined 6.14 ERA in 43 games (including tonight). I'm amazed that the team has been this competitive when 3/5 of the rotation has been so weak.